WSU apple breeding program’s fruit evaluation system
Members of the breeding program’s Industry Advisory Council visit a Phase 3 evaluation site at Quincy in 2010. They are:
H-2A provides dedicated workers
Female H-2A workers do the sorting at Titan Farms, enforcing a high quality standard that assures loads won’t
Last Bite
The Santa Rosa plum was the most widely grown plum in California until the mid-1970s.
The Santa Rosa plum, one of
Everything about PEACHES
Desmond Layne’s work in peach cultivar evaluation means tasting a lot of peaches. “It’s a tough job, but someone has
Clemson peach team
More peaches—about 17,000 acres— are grown in South Carolina than any other state east of California, and Clemson University, the
Eastern U.S. wine industry gets lift
Tony Wolf, center, is director of the Alson H. Smith, Jr. Agricultural Research and Extension Center, a 124-acre site in
Good point
This spring, the Social Security Administration reinstituted its annual reality check for employers, “SSN No-Match letters,” after a three-year hiatus.
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Fast, easy test reveals fungicide resistance
When disease organisms become resistant to a fungicide, spraying is like hitting them with rainwater—expensive rainwater.
In the last three years,
Virus-free peach trees
Simon Scott moves plants at the Musser Fruit Research Farm’s greenhouse, where about 300 trees of a hundred low-chill cultivars
Peaches on ridges
Impressed by early research results, Titan Farms planted 200 acres of peaches on ridges to try out this new approach